Improvement in cupboards



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Patented .Tune 5,1877.

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K WILLIAM H. SALLADA, OF MONROE, IOWA.

lMPROVE'MENT IN CUPBOARDS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 191.549, dated June 5, 1877 application led April 7, 1877.

To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. SALLADA, of the town of Monroe, county of Jasper, and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Portable Cupboard, of which the following description, when taken in connection with the drawing .which forms part of the.

VMy invention consists in the peculiar con-1 struction and arrangement of parts, and will hereinafter be more specifically pointed out in the claim.

A, Fig. 1 and Fig. 3, represents a sink for washing dishes, &c. B, Fig. 1 and Fig.- 2, represents a closet with appropriate shelves for storing of victuals. One or both of the doors of this are provided with an adjustable ventilator, b, Fig. 1.

This ventilator is composed of two equal disks of metal superposed on one another, so that their centers coincide.

Two opposite quadrants of the inner disk are pierced with small holes, and two opposite quadrants of the outer disk are cut away, and in such amanner that when the openings in the outer disk are turned over the perforations in the lower disk, said perforations are exposed and the closet B is ventilated; but upon turning the outer disk, which is pivoted on the center of the lower disk, so that the other quadrants are over the perforations, the perforations are closed, and communication with the outer air is cut off. C, Fig. 3, is a receptacle for meal. D, Fig. 2 and Fig. 3, is receptacle for llour. These are closed by the reversible cover E, Figs. 1, 2, and 3. This reversible cover, besides closing the receptacles aforesaid, serves as a kneading-board or table when desired. It (E) consists of a board of sufficient size to close both G and D. Two hinges are placed near the outer edge of E e e, Figs. 2 and 3, and upon the upper side when E is in the position shown in Figs. 2 and 3 in the drawing hereto annexed.

Two hinges, f f, are also placed upon the edge of said receptacles. As shown at f f, in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the said hinges are connected by two arms, g g. A slide, F, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, is provided, which passes through an aperture into said receptacles, and which may be drawn out, as iu Figs. 2 and 3, or pushed out of sight, as in Fig. l. This slide is placed opposite the middle of E, and near the upper edge of said receptacles C and D.

The said reversible cover E is represented in Fig. 1 closed, and filling its office as a cover to said receptacles C and D. When required as a kneading board or table it is operated as follows: The slide F, Figs. l, 2, and 3, is first drawn out; then, upon raising said cover by its knob, said cover may be turned over so as to rest upon and be sustained by slide F, the side which was below when the same was closed now becoming the upper, and the same assumes the position and appearance shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The receptacles may be closed by simply returning E to its former position, and pushing the slide F in and out of the way, when E assumes the position and appearance shown in Fig. 1.

G, Fig. 1, is a closet, provided with pins or hooks lc k, for suspending tinware, and with or without shelves for pans, &c. H, Figs. 1 and 2, represents a closet with shelves for Crockery and glass ware. J, Fig. 1, repre sents drawer for table-linen; K, drawer for knives, forks, spoons, &c. L L L, Figs. 1 and .2, represent drawers to be used for sugar,

spices, dto., as may be found convenient.

The front upper edge of said drawers are beveled downward and inward, and that edge of the frame sustaining the drawers which is in contact with said front upper edge when any drawer is closed is beveled in the opposite direction, so as to fit and make a close joint. One of said bevels (either on the drawer or on the frame) is furnished with a strip of rubber, so that when a drawer is c1osed-the joint is packed air-tight, all dust excluded, and

evaporation from or loss of aroma by its cor tents is prevented.

Of course the uses to which the differen drawers, closets, and receptacles in my inven4 tion can be put may be varied at pleasure; but the arrangement above set forth seems to me the most convenient and generally useful.

By disengaging the hook h from the pin z', Fig. 1, the upper portion of said portable cupboard may be detached on dotted line yy, Fig. 2, and the two portions may be used separately.

The form and construction of ventilator b,

Fig. 1, may be changed; but this I consider the simplest, most economical, and practically' useful form.

What I claim as new, and desire to patent, 1s-

A porta-ble cupboard, composed of the drawers J K L L, the latter being constructed with upper and lower beveled edges, and adapted to make a tight joint with the correspondinglybeveled ledge, which forms a cover for the upper drawer, the top portion of said cupboard being detachably connected by means of a loop and pin with the lower portion thereof, a reversible kneading-board, E, having a rod, g, hinged near one end thereof, the other end being hinged to the meal -receptacle, which is `provided with doors having ventilating-openings, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing improvement in portable cupboards, as above described, 1 have hereunto set my hand this 31st day of March, 1877.

WILLIAM HENRY SALLADA.

Witnesses:

0. B. KIPP, P. ST. CLAIR. 

